Microservices
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Microservices skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 88 84
Rank change year-on-year -13 -4 -31
Permanent jobs citing Microservices 2,097 1,647 2,070
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 1.78% 3.33% 2.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.43% 3.75% 3.46%
Number of salaries quoted 1,393 779 1,213
10th Percentile £45,000 £51,950 £45,000
25th Percentile £52,500 £60,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £75,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +15.38% -13.33%
75th Percentile £91,250 £91,250 £87,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £115,000 £110,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £67,500 £70,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year -3.57% +12.00% -7.41%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

Microservices falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 86,418 43,977 59,769
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.19% 88.96% 82.26%
Number of salaries quoted 59,113 24,503 32,039
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -2.78%

Microservices
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Microservices relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Microservices job vacancy trend in the UK

Microservices
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Microservices

Microservices
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Microservices over the 6 months to 10 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Microservices in the UK

Microservices
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microservices within the UK over the 6 months to 10 October 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -20 1,804 £75,000 - 1,909
UK excluding London -23 1,157 £67,500 -3.57% 909
Work from Home -20 843 £68,837 -1.66% 874
London -18 784 £85,000 +3.03% 1,195
North of England -48 365 £75,000 +7.14% 249
South East +48 316 £65,000 -7.14% 153
North West -56 197 £75,000 +7.14% 135
South West -1 150 £67,500 +10.20% 87
Midlands -58 109 £75,000 +7.14% 101
North East +6 93 £65,000 +49.86% 38
West Midlands -43 79 £80,000 +14.29% 63
Yorkshire +4 75 £70,121 -1.24% 77
Northern Ireland -18 73 £60,000 +33.33% 79
Wales -21 70 £62,000 +19.23% 26
East of England -52 40 £63,800 +0.08% 81
Scotland -45 34 £70,000 -7.89% 134
East Midlands -64 30 £65,000 -7.14% 38
Isle of Man - 3 £35,000 -

Microservices
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 41 (1.96%) Confluence
2 26 (1.24%) Apache Spark
3 21 (1.00%) CMS
4 20 (0.95%) Apache
5 15 (0.72%) Camunda
6 11 (0.52%) WebLogic
7 10 (0.48%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 10 (0.48%) IIS
7 10 (0.48%) OpenStack
7 10 (0.48%) WordPress
8 9 (0.43%) nginx
9 8 (0.38%) Drupal
10 7 (0.33%) Apache Airflow
10 7 (0.33%) JBoss
10 7 (0.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 4 (0.19%) Sitecore CMS
12 3 (0.14%) DNN
12 3 (0.14%) EPiServer
12 3 (0.14%) Immediacy CMS
12 3 (0.14%) Umbraco
Applications
1 11 (0.52%) MS Visio
2 9 (0.43%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.095%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.048%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.048%) PlantUML
4 1 (0.048%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
2 5 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.19%) Oracle Retail
4 3 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.048%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.048%) Eikon
5 1 (0.048%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.048%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 1,086 (51.79%) AWS
2 897 (42.78%) Azure
3 335 (15.98%) GCP
4 294 (14.02%) GitHub
5 261 (12.45%) Serverless
6 206 (9.82%) SaaS
7 179 (8.54%) Azure DevOps
8 138 (6.58%) AWS Lambda
9 133 (6.34%) Amazon EKS
10 127 (6.06%) AWS CloudFormation
11 117 (5.58%) Amazon S3
12 107 (5.10%) GitHub Copilot
13 94 (4.48%) Azure Service Bus
14 88 (4.20%) GitHub Actions
15 84 (4.01%) Amazon ECS
16 64 (3.05%) Amazon SQS
17 58 (2.77%) Azure AKS
18 55 (2.62%) Amazon EC2
19 53 (2.53%) Azure Monitor
20 51 (2.43%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 27 (1.29%) Network Security
2 19 (0.91%) VPN
3 15 (0.72%) Broadband
3 15 (0.72%) DMARC
4 14 (0.67%) DNS
5 12 (0.57%) MQTT
6 11 (0.52%) Firewall
6 11 (0.52%) TCP/IP
7 10 (0.48%) AMQP
8 9 (0.43%) HTTP
9 7 (0.33%) Internet
10 6 (0.29%) BGP
10 6 (0.29%) Hyperconnected
11 4 (0.19%) RFID
12 3 (0.14%) NAS
12 3 (0.14%) SAN
12 3 (0.14%) SSL
13 2 (0.095%) DHCP
13 2 (0.095%) LTE
13 2 (0.095%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 319 (15.21%) MongoDB
2 248 (11.83%) PostgreSQL
3 208 (9.92%) NoSQL
4 167 (7.96%) Azure SQL Database
5 150 (7.15%) Elasticsearch
6 120 (5.72%) MySQL
7 108 (5.15%) SQL Server
8 86 (4.10%) Relational Database
9 79 (3.77%) Redis
10 51 (2.43%) DynamoDB
11 49 (2.34%) Amazon RDS
12 29 (1.38%) Big Data
13 22 (1.05%) Data Lake
13 22 (1.05%) Pinecone
14 15 (0.72%) Chroma
15 13 (0.62%) RDBMS
16 12 (0.57%) DTS
17 10 (0.48%) Db2
17 10 (0.48%) Metadata
18 9 (0.43%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 296 (14.12%) Git
2 203 (9.68%) GitLab
3 167 (7.96%) Jenkins
4 80 (3.81%) TeamCity
5 72 (3.43%) JUnit
6 57 (2.72%) Cucumber
6 57 (2.72%) JIRA
7 44 (2.10%) Mockito
8 39 (1.86%) Cypress.io
9 37 (1.76%) Maven
10 32 (1.53%) Claude Code
11 29 (1.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 22 (1.05%) Selenium
13 18 (0.86%) REST Assured
14 17 (0.81%) Spock
15 16 (0.76%) Postman
16 14 (0.67%) JMeter
17 13 (0.62%) SonarQube
17 13 (0.62%) Vite
18 8 (0.38%) Bitbucket
General
1 532 (25.37%) Finance
2 444 (21.17%) Social Skills
3 241 (11.49%) Public Sector
4 212 (10.11%) Banking
5 179 (8.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 158 (7.53%) Law
7 150 (7.15%) Analytical Skills
8 142 (6.77%) Retail
9 100 (4.77%) Financial Institution
10 85 (4.05%) Legal
11 76 (3.62%) Back Office
12 59 (2.81%) Marketing
13 46 (2.19%) Aerospace
14 33 (1.57%) Influencing Skills
15 31 (1.48%) Games
16 28 (1.34%) Legal Technology
17 18 (0.86%) Front Office
18 14 (0.67%) Advertising
19 12 (0.57%) Manufacturing
20 11 (0.52%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 753 (35.91%) Developer
2 531 (25.32%) Senior
3 384 (18.31%) Software Engineer
4 362 (17.26%) Lead
5 308 (14.69%) Architect
6 208 (9.92%) Senior Developer
7 193 (9.20%) .NET Developer
8 167 (7.96%) Java Developer
9 166 (7.92%) Full-Stack Developer
10 144 (6.87%) Java Engineer
11 136 (6.49%) Senior Software Engineer
12 129 (6.15%) Full-Stack Engineer
13 106 (5.05%) Principal Engineer
14 103 (4.91%) Solutions Architect
15 85 (4.05%) Lead Software Engineer
16 76 (3.62%) DevOps Engineer
17 72 (3.43%) Software Developer
18 65 (3.10%) Technical Leader
19 64 (3.05%) Lead Developer
20 63 (3.00%) Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 531 (25.32%) .NET
2 451 (21.51%) React
3 421 (20.08%) Node.js
4 416 (19.84%) Terraform
5 413 (19.69%) Spring
6 377 (17.98%) Spring Boot
7 313 (14.93%) RESTful
8 298 (14.21%) Kafka
8 298 (14.21%) REST
9 237 (11.30%) ASP.NET
10 231 (11.02%) AngularJS
11 219 (10.44%) .NET Core
12 199 (9.49%) Vue
13 192 (9.16%) ASP.NET Core
14 125 (5.96%) Blazor
15 102 (4.86%) ASP.NET Web API
16 87 (4.15%) HTML
17 85 (4.05%) .NET Framework
18 84 (4.01%) CSS
19 80 (3.81%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 712 (33.95%) Cloud Native
2 397 (18.93%) Distributed Systems
3 171 (8.15%) Product Ownership
4 131 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
5 98 (4.67%) Legacy Systems
6 84 (4.01%) Onboarding
7 67 (3.20%) AI Agents
8 65 (3.10%) Public Cloud
9 51 (2.43%) Virtual Team
10 48 (2.29%) e-Learning
11 47 (2.24%) Self-Motivation
12 44 (2.10%) Greenfield Project
13 31 (1.48%) Management Information System
14 23 (1.10%) Distributed Architecture
15 22 (1.05%) Blog
16 21 (1.00%) Mainframe
16 21 (1.00%) Private Cloud
17 20 (0.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
17 20 (0.95%) Legacy Applications
18 19 (0.91%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 147 (7.01%) Linux
2 45 (2.15%) Windows
3 33 (1.57%) CentOS
3 33 (1.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 19 (0.91%) Unix
5 10 (0.48%) Apple iOS
6 8 (0.38%) Android
6 8 (0.38%) Windows Server
7 7 (0.33%) AIX
7 7 (0.33%) Debian
7 7 (0.33%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.19%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,176 (56.08%) CI/CD
2 1,024 (48.83%) Agile
3 772 (36.81%) Software Engineering
4 742 (35.38%) DevOps
5 564 (26.90%) Full-Stack Development
5 564 (26.90%) Mentoring
6 496 (23.65%) Event-Driven
7 479 (22.84%) AI
8 458 (21.84%) Test Automation
9 445 (21.22%) Infrastructure as Code
10 421 (20.08%) Continuous Improvement
11 411 (19.60%) Containerisation
12 385 (18.36%) Problem-Solving
13 343 (16.36%) Technical Leadership
14 314 (14.97%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 296 (14.12%) Scrum
16 275 (13.11%) Observability
17 264 (12.59%) Architectural Patterns
18 238 (11.35%) TDD
19 235 (11.21%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 791 (37.72%) Java
2 573 (27.32%) C#
3 507 (24.18%) SQL
4 444 (21.17%) JavaScript
5 410 (19.55%) Python
5 410 (19.55%) TypeScript
6 83 (3.96%) Go
7 55 (2.62%) Ruby
8 39 (1.86%) C++
9 35 (1.67%) Bash
10 33 (1.57%) PHP
11 29 (1.38%) Bicep
12 28 (1.34%) Kotlin
13 24 (1.14%) PowerShell
14 19 (0.91%) Rust
15 17 (0.81%) PL/SQL
16 13 (0.62%) Scala
17 12 (0.57%) Groovy
18 11 (0.52%) Shell Script
19 10 (0.48%) RPG
Qualifications
1 356 (16.98%) Security Cleared
2 249 (11.87%) SC Cleared
3 161 (7.68%) Degree
4 106 (5.05%) DV Cleared
5 87 (4.15%) AWS Certification
6 84 (4.01%) Computer Science Degree
7 62 (2.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 38 (1.81%) CISSP
9 36 (1.72%) Azure Certification
10 25 (1.19%) CISM
11 18 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
11 18 (0.86%) TOGAF Certification
12 15 (0.72%) Master's Degree
13 10 (0.48%) Cisco Certification
13 10 (0.48%) MBA
14 8 (0.38%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 8 (0.38%) CCSP
14 8 (0.38%) DBS Check
15 5 (0.24%) Microsoft Certification
15 5 (0.24%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 222 (10.59%) QA
2 103 (4.91%) Accessibility
3 41 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 39 (1.86%) WCAG
5 26 (1.24%) GDPR
5 26 (1.24%) NIST
6 19 (0.91%) Data Quality
7 17 (0.81%) NCSC
7 17 (0.81%) PCI DSS
8 15 (0.72%) SOC 2
9 10 (0.48%) ISO 20022
10 8 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
10 8 (0.38%) GRC
10 8 (0.38%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 6 (0.29%) Government Security Classifications
12 5 (0.24%) PSD2
13 4 (0.19%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 3 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
14 3 (0.14%) SEPA
14 3 (0.14%) SLA
System Software
1 612 (29.18%) Docker
2 41 (1.96%) Active Directory
3 10 (0.48%) NDS
4 8 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (0.19%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.14%) KVM
8 2 (0.095%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.048%) Embedded Firmware
9 1 (0.048%) Firmware
9 1 (0.048%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 688 (32.81%) Kubernetes
2 129 (6.15%) Grafana
3 97 (4.63%) Ansible
4 52 (2.48%) Prometheus
5 28 (1.34%) Single Sign-On
6 25 (1.19%) Argo
7 21 (1.00%) Puppet
8 14 (0.67%) Cilium
8 14 (0.67%) Kibana
9 6 (0.29%) Progress Chef
10 5 (0.24%) Podman
11 4 (0.19%) HP Fortify
12 3 (0.14%) Kubeflow
13 2 (0.095%) logstash
13 2 (0.095%) Microsoft Intune
13 2 (0.095%) Rancher
14 1 (0.048%) Cisco CUCM
14 1 (0.048%) Consul
14 1 (0.048%) Control-M
14 1 (0.048%) Fluentd
Vendors
1 345 (16.45%) Microsoft
2 103 (4.91%) Google
3 71 (3.39%) Oracle
4 56 (2.67%) Splunk
5 52 (2.48%) OpenAI
6 30 (1.43%) Dynatrace
7 29 (1.38%) Okta
8 27 (1.29%) ForgeRock
9 24 (1.14%) Databricks
10 19 (0.91%) Mistral
11 18 (0.86%) OneLogin
12 17 (0.81%) IBM
13 16 (0.76%) SAP
14 15 (0.72%) SendGrid
15 14 (0.67%) Adobe
15 14 (0.67%) AppDynamics
15 14 (0.67%) OpenText
16 13 (0.62%) CyberArk
17 12 (0.57%) Salesforce
18 11 (0.52%) Red Hat